Bar Bruno

Quick, easy, delicious - would recommend. I came by for a take away snack in prep for my train trip to Edinburgh. At 8:40am on a Monday it was pretty quiet and I was served and out the door in record time.

I bought a croissant and chicken, prosciutto, cheese sandwich for later.
I obviously I had to take a bite of both and it took all of my will power not to eat the entire sandwich right then a there. It was warm, melty, and toasted - hopefully it holds up in a few hours. The croissant was delicious too, flaky, buttery goodness. Again, I hope it travels OK.

I was able to get of these snacks for about £10 - not bad for London, Soho.

Being jetlagged and starving in the early hours of the morning, my husband, a friend of ours, and I entered Bar Bruno around 6a. We devoured huge breakfasts before adventuring around London that day. The staff was really sweet and personable, and both the food and coffee were delicious. You can tell there is a lot of history in this café, and enjoying an early morning breakfast here was a sweet experience we'll remember for a long time.

Great food. Simple ingredients that speak for themselves. Very fast service. Nice little hole-in-the-wall.

Friendly, unpretentious place in soho. Friendly staff, seating on both levels. They accept cc. Had bangers and mash with onion gravy, large portions.

Nothing fancy, just good food. Kinda bummed we didn't find this place until our last day in London. All day breakfast and a big menu for that. This is the kind of place you could go everyday as it seems to be just so dependable. Fast paced and the staff was very friendly. I'll have to remember this place for next time in town.

Prior to my London trip, I had been Yelping places to get a full English breakfast. Bar Bruno came up with great reviews, and only one pound sign, so my friends and I decided to trek on over on a Monday morning.

The place is small, with a few tables. It looked more like a deli-type place than it did a restaurant. Plus, it seemed like the majority of the people were getting all of their orders to go. We sat and ordered, and our food came out pretty quickly, probably about 10 minutes later. I had the full English brekkie, which comes with sausage, bacon, blood sausage, two eggs, beans, mushrooms, a hash brown, toast and bubble & squeak (some type of mushed up vegetables with peas in it - NOT GOOD).

The taste of the food itself wasn't bad. It's what you would typically expect of brunch food. However, everything was over oily. It's like they fried everything in butter, which was really excessive. I was probably only able to eat about a third of my plate before I started feeling queasy from all of the grease. Maybe this is how all English brekkies are? I don't know, since this was my first one. But I have had a full Irish breakfast before, which is pretty similar, and I don't remember that one being that greasy.

I'm sure you can find a better English breakfast elsewhere. But if you must come here, I would definitely suggest sharing one plate with one or two other people.

Great casual neighborhood spot for a full English breakfast. I got the BB breakfast (£8) - it was tasty and i was completely stuffed halfway through it. The buttered toast that came with it was so delicious! Very unexpected, given that it just looked like regular toasted sliced white bread.

The menu is small and straightforward (no-frills and affordable), with a focus on their most popular items, the BB and BBB breakfasts: full English breakfasts that come with eggs, canadian bacon, a hash brown patty, bubble, and beans. (The BBB option is bigger, with some extra items like black pudding and mushrooms.)

Everything was simple, yet well-made, and the service was great! I hadn't had Canadian bacon before and really liked it. It tasted like if ham and American bacon had a lovechild, minus the fatty strips. It went very well with my over easy eggs and hash brown. Wasn't as much of a fan of the sausage and bubble (some sort of dumpling). But all in all, great place for some affordable comfort brunch food in London!

If you're looking for a no frills, quick on the run, filling breakfast while in London, this is the place for you. It reminded me of a busy NYC deli in the morning: tons of people coming in and out ordering coffee a quick bite to go (rolls, croissants, omelets, paninis, Bacon, Egg, & Cheese Sandwiches, etc.).

They do have some tables with table service. Since we were in in no rush, we decided to sit down for breakfast. Of course, we had to order the traditional English breakfast. Their English breakfast consisted of eggs, bacon, sausage, mushroom, tomatoes, potatoes, beans, black pudding, and toast. Tea or Coffee was included in the price. Food came out very quickly, the fastest I had in London. Portion size was huge - it was enough for two people to share. Everything was delicious. Eggs were perfectly cooked. Potatoes were perfectly seasoned. Bacon and sausage were cooked right. The beans were also super tasty. Too bad we didn't get the chance to try their lunch entrees.

I would highly recommend Bruno's for breakfast while in London.

Amazing greasy spoon! Huge breakfasts for small prices, good coffe and an overall neighbourhood feel to the whole thing.

It's relatively small and seems crammed, but it's absolutely worth it. It does get super busy too, which just shows how awesome this place is.

Good food, not so great service.

We went here for dinner because it was recommended by someone in the hostel we stayed at. We're not sure if it was because we we American but service from the get-go wasn't stellar. We got looks when we first came in from the staff when we wanted to get a table.

For our starter we wanted to try the jacket potato because we never had it. The server taking the order (who was also the cook) told us the jacket potato is really filling and is basically a meal so we decided to share it instead because we wanted to try other things from the menu. After it came out, we devoured the Chili Con Carne that came with extra cheese on top.

Here's where it goes downhill. After we ate the jacket potato (~£5), we were trying to get any of the staff members notice that we were done. Our plates were cleaned out but none of them came over to grab it and ask us for anything. We made eye contact with them MANY times but they never seemed to acknowledge us. By the time we got their attention our hunger disappeared but we still wanted to get what we intended on getting for ourselves. Note that for us to get their attention, we had to go up to them roughly 10-15 minutes after finishing the jacket potato.

Wanting to try food from the country, I got the Steak and Kidney pie with chips and gravy with a couple of mixed vegetables (£7). I'm not sure if the pie crust is supposed to be hard but it was and it was not easy to cut through. The steak and kidney tasted nice. Veggies were cooked nice, but the service just made it not as enjoyable. However the fries were amazing. We barely dug into our dinner and got boxes to go.

They have many specials posted all around their restaurant that I would go back to try. If it weren't for their lack of attention for service, this would've gotten at least 4 stars.